At 03:47 PM 1/28/2006, you wrote:
The problem is the that confounded numbering system that AMD uses (not that Intel is that much better).
yeah I still don't really understand any of it
The "3400+" Sempy is only 2GHz w/256KB cache. That'll perform worse than an older Newcastle A64 3000+ (2GHz w/512KB cache). 256KB seems to be the cut-off point for A64s. Once you hit 128KB, even overclocking doesn't help as much. Here are a couple of tests I did for the 3400+ Sempy : http://www.bluesmoke.net/review66_3.html You'll be very happy with that chip once you OC it. Heck, it runs cooler OC'ed than my current ClawHammer 3700+ does at stock :P
No real need for me to OC, and wouldn't want to take any data corruption risk when encoding. It is nice a cool, and will be a good CPU for a media center running on it's Asus K8N-E Deluxe. It should be plenty fast for that particular use. On a media center my big concern is going to be noise, and with this CPU I can really keep noise down. But all in all, with the AMD 64 hype, I really expected it to come far closer to my Prescott P4 3400. Frankly, I thought they would be very close.
-- JW
